THORNTON — Early Saturday morning a SWAT team entered the apartment where a Colorado man suspected in the deaths of his estranged wife and his mother-in-law was believed to be hiding and found an adult male deceased inside, Thornton Police reported on Twitter.

There is no confirmation on the male’s identification at this time.

The SWAT team and other law enforcement officers surrounded the apartment complex residence in Thornton on Friday night after a day-long manhunt for a man suspected of kidnapping and killing two women.

The Weld County Sheriff’s Office said it believes the man, who was holed up in the Bravado Viewpoint Apartments, 10211 Ura Lane, was 37-year-old Cimmeron Johns.

The sheriff’s office said Johns kidnapped his estranged wife, Alisha, 36, and her mother, Sherri Pachello, 56, on Thursday night.

Two bodies found earlier Friday south of Dacono have been presumptively identified as theirs, the sheriff’s office says.

The SWAT situation in Thornton developed after police found Pachello’s SUV in the neighborhood.

Sgt. Matt Kandt, a Thornton police spokesman, said that after police received reports that a homicide suspect was in a residence in the neighborhood, there was a report that shots were fired from inside.

Residents of the complex were told to stay inside unless evacuated by police.

A manhunt was launched after Weld County authorities on Friday discovered two bodies near or in irrigation canals.

Officials spent the day trying to confirm that the bodies were related to the kidnapping of two women Thursday night. Friday evening, they presumptively identified the bodies.

One body was found about 11 a.m. near Weld County roads 17 and 4. The second was found about 1:30 p.m. near Weld County roads 15 and 2.

“We have another body scene. We have our hands full. Our biggest concern right now is we have a person who is very desperate,” Bureau Chief Steve Reams of the Weld County Sheriff’s Department said Friday afternoon.

Officials had difficulty recovering the first body, which was found not far from where the kidnapping happened, Reams said. Water flowing in the canal quickly froze around the body.

Authorities believe Johns may have crashed his 1992 black Mercedes into Pachello’s gold SUV and then commandeered their vehicle, kidnapping both women.

Pachello called her husband at 10 p.m. Thursday, saying she was being chased by someone driving a dark-colored car, Reams said.

She had gone to Johns’ house in Frederick to pick up her daughter, who was visiting her estranged husband. Witnesses also told investigators they had seen the Mercedes chasing another car from Johns’ home.

Deputies began searching and found a crash scene near Frederick, where Johns’ Mercedes had been abandoned.

Recent incidents of domestic violence involving the Johnses have been reported.

According to an affidavit obtained by 7News, Alisha Johns told Frederick police on Jan. 24 that her husband had choked and punched her for two days after he learned she was cheating on him.

She said she had lost consciousness twice during the attacks.

She told clinic staff that her children had gone to stay with her mother after the attacks.

At that time, she also told police she did not want to press charges against her husband, and she left the clinic.

7News also reported Friday that on Jan. 28, Frederick police obtained an arrest warrant for Cimmeron Johns for felony assault causing serious bodily injury. He was not arrested before Thursday’s kidnappings occurred.

On Friday, police SWAT units searched Johns’ home in Frederick, according to neighbors.

Kirk Mitchell is a general assignment reporter at The Denver Post who focuses on criminal justice stories. He began working at the newspaper in 1998, after writing for newspapers in Mesa, Ariz., and Twin Falls, Idaho, and The Associated Press in Salt Lake City. Mitchell first started writing the Cold Case blog in Fall 2007, in part because Colorado has more than 1,400 unsolved homicides.

Ryan Parker was a reporter for The Denver Post from 2011 until May 2014. A Colorado native, Parker started his career at smaller weeklies and worked for YourHub before becoming a breaking news reporter for The Post.

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